Hey animation graduate here! What you’re talking about in most of your video, the ‘popping thing’ is an actual and important technique called overshoot! For anyone who wants to dig further into it, check out the 12 principles of animation, anticipation and overshoot is one of them :)
Totally agree! I was thinking about commenting on it too, since it’s kind of overlooked in animation tutorials. It’s super helpful, and really makes the animation look realistic/fluid
A yes, an even 100 likes. But seriously thanks for the info. I don't animate, I rarely even draw but I love learning about art techniques of different kinds. Its super interesting.
@strawberrys0da714 thanks for the recommendation I've been trying to find something to teach me more about animation since being a character animator is my dream job.
Animation major graduate here! Most animators are taught to do inbetweens with poses, but you can have multiple end points, so you wouldn’t just mark the starting and ending pose, you’d also mark the very middle pose. Then you do the inbetween frames. :) but the second method is also super cute!! I’d add like one transition frame in between poses just to make it a little more seamless, but that’s my own take:) both methods are good when you need them
Personally, I think most of this is an example of ease in and out. You add more frames at the beginning and the end of the animation wich will make the animation seem really smooth with little effort.
The "before" blink could still be useful for certain scenes - a slow, deliberate blink while she's processing something, say. You know, "Um--" s l o w blink "--what are you TALKING about?" Or to emphasize that a character is really zoned out - like another character asks, "What do you think?" and they blink like that. Man, though, the "after" blink looks really cool.
Animation student here. These tips are really good! Some of them did actually help me out. I do want to mention that for the full body movement, the first example could work if you simply put one extra frame where the character goes past the key frames then returns to them. Now in technical terms this may sound confusing, but for example, let's say your moving your arm to the right. Before you ever move your arm to right, you move it slightly to the left first, and vice versa. The more power you need for a movement, like, per se, pitching a baseball, the more you'll move that arm in the opposite direction beforehand before actually pitching it. This is called anticipation and is one of the fundamental principles of animation that they teach in school. Basically if you added some anticipation on the first example of the full body movement, it legitimately could work just fine along with some other minor tweaks.
@@LavenderTowne sorry for intruding. I don't know if you would read this but please, please, make a video analysing the toxic ml Sahed of the webtoon of Marionetta!! I suffer from PTSD and I find utterly disgusting how the author Miriam Bonastre has been washing genre based violence called now "flirting", just because the toxic guy is so hot!! He has been manipulating the fl, pushing to murdering, to commict crimes without explaining why, saying "this all for your best", intimidating her even stabbing her with a knife, and now Miriam has called all that behaviour "flirting". It is so hideous. He hasn't even apologised. People claim his behaviour was "for the greater good and the sake of his people", but tell me how this affect the freedom of his people?? It has nothing to do. Please, denounce the situation, it is so crazy. 🥲🥲🥲 Their fans even called me frigid for saying I don't like how the toxicity of his behaviour is ignored.
I’m an a beginner animator myself, the saying words out loud to study the way the mouth works when you pronounce them as you animate is such a real one, also great video as always! 😊
Quick tip for lipsyncing! There is no need to try and sound out all of the words and match the voice posistions, it's far to tedious and normally ends up really janky looking, although it can be really cool looking What I normally do is make my character change their pose whenever there is a pause/tone shift in the dialog To change the pose, (I just do what lavendertowne describes) This is far easier and looks much cooler in my opinion :)
at 2:17 keep in mind that if you stretch something, it has to squash to retain the volume, making it more fluid. Although it is an eye so im not sure how well it would apply, but try to squeeze the eye horizontally when you stretch it vertically and vice versa and see what you prefer.
Great tutorial and undertale music?! This is not only teaching me how to animate this is also giving me a huge dose of nistolgia! Thank you for this tutorial Lavendertowne! Informative and entertaining as always!
For full body movements i recommend combining the two methods shown in the video, still drawing in between frames from each pose but still having that bouncy effect!! Thats how i do it personally
WOW! Honestly, these are the easiest/best tips I have ever seen! I have watched a lot of videos about the principles of animation about timing and leading up to motion.... But this was sooooo much more helpful! Especially coming from an illustrators perspective.
Hey Haley! You probably won't see this, but I just wanted to say that it was great to see you at the Litup author event yesterday in Kansas city! I was the redhead with the Lavender shirt who asked if you'd ever met Leblehblehbleh in person! 😂 I know you got kind of cut off in your response, but as a long term subscriber and fan, it was amazing to meet you!
AHHHH! THIS IS SO HELPFULLLL! 😋😋😋 tysm lavendertowne!! You’ve been my inspiration for drawing for such a long time so I’m so so so happy for your success!!!
I think you should make like an animation 101 video!! like what programs to do, how to animate, tips and tricks, stuff like that! idk if u already have one but I've been struggling with animation so bad and I'd love it if you made one if you haven't!!
Hiiiiiii lavendertowne I actually read your books unfamiliar 1 and I was begging my family to get me the second one and on my birthday I got the second one btw my fav character is babs and Winston.
Thank you so much for your tutorials and I like how u explained ur tutorials in a concise and simple way. The snapping reminds me of the 12 principles of animations l learned such as stretching and squishing the poses to add that exaggeration
When i have a charcater snap from pose to pose i usually add a smear frame to bridge the gap along with the squash and stretch you suggested. To trick the viewer into thinking its smoother than it is i like to take the time to add some over lapping animation. The character could have long hair or a skirt that takes time to settle, so even though the body movement is 3-5 frames the overlapping animation makes it look smoother like its animated on 2s
i have always thought animation would be too much for me (i'm a super impatient artist T-T), but these tips make me feel like the barrier to entry has lowered significantly, and I really want to try some of it now! Thank you for sharing :)
I’m not that much informed about animation, but I heard that having reference sheets of characters in different angles or expressions also helps. So you won’t have to redraw the same thing over and over.
Ive just started animation, these tips are so helpful! The eye tips look so helpful for beginners, and I appreciate how you included a more dynamic option thats not too difficult:D
💫 Great video as always, loving the music box version of the Megalomania in the background! (Not sure how to spell it, but it's the most known song in the Undertale fandom, it's at 3:32) ✨
It's worth bearing in mind that how you animate something depends greatly on intended tone/style. Most of these "shortcuts" apply best to comedic animations such as storytime videos; you probably wouldn't see them as much in something like a somber music video.
When I'm lip-syncing I'll actually write out the words(in the corner of the screen or something) and time them first. If it's a longer word I'll break it up. It doesn't take too long and it's actually easier since you're not having to replay it quite as much to be like, "Is that right?" It's more black and white obvious when something is mistimed.
amazing! also y'all help why am I so obsessed with this random description I created for a ai chat role play: in a underground fighting ring there stood a burly man ahead of it all gruff looking yet there was something fatherly about him he bore a prickly mustache and short hair the color of chocolate he wore a suit beside him stood a short girl with hair tide back into pony tails as dark as Mahogany brown she wore a blind fold she wore a green dress with two layered brown belts she wore cream knee length socks and wore sneakers This man was known strictly as Mr. Arison with the only exception being for the thin girl as they stood on a balcony as in the arena a fight went on down below as this thin girl was this man's daughter and he was protective of her but always proud of her for even if she is blind she is a incredible fighter and outside of the ring he's a goofball loving and silly and affectionate towards his daughter so far the girl, Rauca, has already taken down a champion fighter...she's like 12 and blind-
Woww these r really good tips! I always like tips that cater to more caroony artstyles since I feel like most tutorials are for realistic or semirealistic artstyles :3 btw what animation app is this? ive been looking for a new one to use :P
4:54 I actually dot hat too and i feel like it really helps. Plus I also make the same expression my character is making while animating or drawing. Idk if that one has any purpose or not tho.
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Hey animation graduate here! What you’re talking about in most of your video, the ‘popping thing’ is an actual and important technique called overshoot! For anyone who wants to dig further into it, check out the 12 principles of animation, anticipation and overshoot is one of them :)
Totally agree! I was thinking about commenting on it too, since it’s kind of overlooked in animation tutorials. It’s super helpful, and really makes the animation look realistic/fluid
A yes, an even 100 likes. But seriously thanks for the info. I don't animate, I rarely even draw but I love learning about art techniques of different kinds. Its super interesting.
Absolutely! Alan Becker (Animator vs Animation) has a really good series about the 12 principles of animation.
@strawberrys0da714 thanks for the recommendation I've been trying to find something to teach me more about animation since being a character animator is my dream job.
That's what it's called! I'm looking to go into animation and I typically just call them my blur frames.
I hope leblehblehbleh never stops being a patron lol
Me too it wouldn’t be the same
what if thet change their username HUH? HUH?!??! exactly!!!
Right? Her saying it makes me happy every time~! That and Jabberdabberdoo
me when jabberdabberdoo
Sometimes I wish I came up with expressive poker face 🥹
I love how aggressive meglovania plays in the background while Lavender is talking. Quite surreal.
Was a bit ear piercing, at times, too.
Animation major graduate here! Most animators are taught to do inbetweens with poses, but you can have multiple end points, so you wouldn’t just mark the starting and ending pose, you’d also mark the very middle pose. Then you do the inbetween frames. :) but the second method is also super cute!! I’d add like one transition frame in between poses just to make it a little more seamless, but that’s my own take:) both methods are good when you need them
I admire your approach to tutorials. No fat, just here's how it's done. =)
thank you so much!! 🤍
Fat?
@@BenIThinklike no useless rambling or extra unnecessary stuff
@@userisangela Ohhh got it
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Personally, I think most of this is an example of ease in and out. You add more frames at the beginning and the end of the animation wich will make the animation seem really smooth with little effort.
Yeah, it's working for fast animation
The "before" blink could still be useful for certain scenes - a slow, deliberate blink while she's processing something, say. You know, "Um--" s l o w blink "--what are you TALKING about?" Or to emphasize that a character is really zoned out - like another character asks, "What do you think?" and they blink like that.
Man, though, the "after" blink looks really cool.
I call that the cat blink, because cats blink slowly when they trust u. I like doing it to the street cats that let me give them scritches.
I did a small animation of a character blinking, but her eyes are droopy and she was supposed to look tired and dead inside, so it worked out great
I was thinking of when ppl do the frog blink with that animation method lmao
Glad you made this when I get an animation homework
Animation student here. These tips are really good! Some of them did actually help me out.
I do want to mention that for the full body movement, the first example could work if you simply put one extra frame where the character goes past the key frames then returns to them. Now in technical terms this may sound confusing, but for example, let's say your moving your arm to the right. Before you ever move your arm to right, you move it slightly to the left first, and vice versa. The more power you need for a movement, like, per se, pitching a baseball, the more you'll move that arm in the opposite direction beforehand before actually pitching it. This is called anticipation and is one of the fundamental principles of animation that they teach in school.
Basically if you added some anticipation on the first example of the full body movement, it legitimately could work just fine along with some other minor tweaks.
"Hey everybody! It's LavanderTowne" was said 9 times over the course of this video.
amazing advice as always!! also if you're looking for a character design video idea, you should do the 5 senses as people/monsters !!
I’m so doing this omg!
this idea would be so epic omagah 😱😱
@@LavenderTowne sorry for intruding. I don't know if you would read this but please, please, make a video analysing the toxic ml Sahed of the webtoon of Marionetta!! I suffer from PTSD and I find utterly disgusting how the author Miriam Bonastre has been washing genre based violence called now "flirting", just because the toxic guy is so hot!! He has been manipulating the fl, pushing to murdering, to commict crimes without explaining why, saying "this all for your best", intimidating her even stabbing her with a knife, and now Miriam has called all that behaviour "flirting". It is so hideous. He hasn't even apologised. People claim his behaviour was "for the greater good and the sake of his people", but tell me how this affect the freedom of his people?? It has nothing to do. Please, denounce the situation, it is so crazy. 🥲🥲🥲 Their fans even called me frigid for saying I don't like how the toxicity of his behaviour is ignored.
When your idea actually becomes a video
Definitely very helpful, tysm for the tips! I'll definitely use these! I'm happy to be a member too ^^
aw thanks for watching early ! 🤍
@@LavenderTowne Ofc! I love your content, so I wanna support you!
10:20 ooh a smear there would add so much! making me wanna animate so badly! i miss it
I’m an a beginner animator myself, the saying words out loud to study the way the mouth works when you pronounce them as you animate is such a real one, also great video as always! 😊
Quick tip for lipsyncing!
There is no need to try and sound out all of the words and match the voice posistions, it's far to tedious and normally ends up really janky looking, although it can be really cool looking
What I normally do is make my character change their pose whenever there is a pause/tone shift in the dialog
To change the pose, (I just do what lavendertowne describes)
This is far easier and looks much cooler in my opinion
:)
As a person hoping to one day create an animated show, this is very helpful! Thank you!
i swear yu will make that show!!!!
As somebody who often feels like dying when animating, thanks, it’ll help me to actually animate
music box megalovania starts 3:33
at 2:17 keep in mind that if you stretch something, it has to squash to retain the volume, making it more fluid. Although it is an eye so im not sure how well it would apply, but try to squeeze the eye horizontally when you stretch it vertically and vice versa and see what you prefer.
Great tutorial and undertale music?! This is not only teaching me how to animate this is also giving me a huge dose of nistolgia! Thank you for this tutorial Lavendertowne! Informative and entertaining as always!
I totally agree novice at animation so I’m crossing my fingers this will help 🤞
(Knowing Haley, it definitely will)
For full body movements i recommend combining the two methods shown in the video, still drawing in between frames from each pose but still having that bouncy effect!! Thats how i do it personally
WOW! Honestly, these are the easiest/best tips I have ever seen! I have watched a lot of videos about the principles of animation about timing and leading up to motion.... But this was sooooo much more helpful! Especially coming from an illustrators perspective.
How did you know I was going to animate today? The first tip was instantly helpful since I animate blinking like the first way, thank you!
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thank you for making this video! I’m trying to become a story time animator so this really helps me :)
Hey Haley! You probably won't see this, but I just wanted to say that it was great to see you at the Litup author event yesterday in Kansas city! I was the redhead with the Lavender shirt who asked if you'd ever met Leblehblehbleh in person! 😂 I know you got kind of cut off in your response, but as a long term subscriber and fan, it was amazing to meet you!
I love when you make these types of videos, helps me so muchh
Amazing tutorial! I love all of your videos and ur by far one of my fav artists on YT ❤
That's some wonderful artwork; especially the tiny flying saucer with ambition.
This was extremely helpful for me! I was struggling to comprehend any tutorials or tips before, but this was put into a way I understood.
Oh, now I'm noticing the snap on everything. Like the chair spin animation
AHHHH! THIS IS SO HELPFULLLL! 😋😋😋 tysm lavendertowne!! You’ve been my inspiration for drawing for such a long time so I’m so so so happy for your success!!!
Ima need to watch that last part like 10 times lol😭
I think you should make like an animation 101 video!! like what programs to do, how to animate, tips and tricks, stuff like that! idk if u already have one but I've been struggling with animation so bad and I'd love it if you made one if you haven't!!
Hiiiiiii lavendertowne I actually read your books unfamiliar 1 and I was begging my family to get me the second one and on my birthday I got the second one btw my fav character is babs and Winston.
id looove more of these animation centered videos from you!! your art is so perfect for animation & this vid was rlly helpful
Yay Lavender uploaded!!!!!
Thank you so much for your tutorials and I like how u explained ur tutorials in a concise and simple way. The snapping reminds me of the 12 principles of animations l learned such as stretching and squishing the poses to add that exaggeration
THANK YOU IVE BEEN NEEDING A TUTORIAL LIKE THIS FOR THE LONGEST TIME 💖💖💖💖💖
oh my god, you totally made my day, thank you Haley ❤
I love your fun videos but it’s also so nice to have your fun but education/learning videos once in a while
These are rlly good tutorials:D
also…….
YT HID THIS FROM ME FOR ONE MINUTE
Thanks for making this video. Very helpful. Also I really like your art for your characters.
I've been watching you for awhile and I'm already getting good, you're too good Lavender Towne
I’d love to see Lavender making animation memes with music, (considering that the art is gonna look so good)
the last one is less an animation technique and more a story boarding technique or just key poses without in-betweens
I love the lavender towne plushie its so cute ! Also thanks for the tutorials ! :)
“Among us skibidi” when she said that I almost died 💀 😂 10:38
Hi! I used to watch you a lot during quarantine and this popped up on my fyp! Your voice is so soothing lol😅
i was literally getting ready to animate rn thank you so much for this video
When i have a charcater snap from pose to pose i usually add a smear frame to bridge the gap along with the squash and stretch you suggested. To trick the viewer into thinking its smoother than it is i like to take the time to add some over lapping animation. The character could have long hair or a skirt that takes time to settle, so even though the body movement is 3-5 frames the overlapping animation makes it look smoother like its animated on 2s
how do u always make a video on a topic i’m currently struggling on holy-
i have always thought animation would be too much for me (i'm a super impatient artist T-T), but these tips make me feel like the barrier to entry has lowered significantly, and I really want to try some of it now! Thank you for sharing :)
THANK YOU FOR DOING A VIDEO ON ANIMATION!! Ive been watching you for years now and your advice has helped me so much + I just got into animating! :3
I’m not that much informed about animation, but I heard that having reference sheets of characters in different angles or expressions also helps. So you won’t have to redraw the same thing over and over.
Thank! i always wanted to learn animation and this helped me a lotz!!
Ive just started animation, these tips are so helpful! The eye tips look so helpful for beginners, and I appreciate how you included a more dynamic option thats not too difficult:D
This is great, please keep doing educational videos 🥰
Ooohhh thank youu!!! I want to learn how to animate and this is very helpful!!
I swear you make these videos just when I need it!
as soon as i try to get into animation lavendertowne posts a vid on it??
3:58 DO I HEAR UNDERTALE MUSIC IN THE BACKGROUND
Could you do a video on lineart? Always struggled with that and yours always look sooooo good!
I joined my college's Animation club recently and maybe this video will help me with our project for this year!
Thank you for the tips I definitely have to try because animation is definitely hard to learn, even though I only done it few times myself as well
💫 Great video as always, loving the music box version of the Megalomania in the background! (Not sure how to spell it, but it's the most known song in the Undertale fandom, it's at 3:32) ✨
Megalovania, and I agree :)
How'd you know I was trying to animate today
She lives in our walls,obviously.
@@Hellostary Real, I was just about to sit down and start animating and then I got recommended this video
O my word this was so helpful thank you so much for this I needed it real bad
I’m so early and this is just what I was looking for today! Love your videos
Yippi lavender towne video
megalovania music box bgm is nasty work
i love you leblehblehbleh never die
AHHHH I NEEDED THIS SO MUCH. IT'S SUPER HELPFUL!! Thank you so much >< !
It's worth bearing in mind that how you animate something depends greatly on intended tone/style. Most of these "shortcuts" apply best to comedic animations such as storytime videos; you probably wouldn't see them as much in something like a somber music video.
Can you please make a video? How do you make your character? Bedroom❤
Always with the super helpful tips, thank you so much 👌😮💨
I LOVE SMEAR FRAMES I CAN MAKE IT LOOK STUPID
I was literally just thinking about starting animation! How are you in my head??
I was thinking of that too! :O
thank youuu i really need help with my trashy animation lol and this was quite helpful
also not the undertale in the background lol
:D, do this not that hath returned!!
OMG NOW I CAN ANIMATE AGAIN!!! ILYSM (/p)
When I'm lip-syncing I'll actually write out the words(in the corner of the screen or something) and time them first. If it's a longer word I'll break it up. It doesn't take too long and it's actually easier since you're not having to replay it quite as much to be like, "Is that right?" It's more black and white obvious when something is mistimed.
amazing!
also y'all help why am I so obsessed with this random description I created for a ai chat role play:
in a underground fighting ring there stood a burly man ahead of it all gruff looking yet there was something fatherly about him he bore a prickly mustache and short hair the color of chocolate he wore a suit beside him stood a short girl with hair tide back into pony tails as dark as Mahogany brown she wore a blind fold she wore a green dress with two layered brown belts she wore cream knee length socks and wore sneakers This man was known strictly as Mr. Arison with the only exception being for the thin girl as they stood on a balcony as in the arena a fight went on down below as this thin girl was this man's daughter and he was protective of her but always proud of her for even if she is blind she is a incredible fighter and outside of the ring he's a goofball loving and silly and affectionate towards his daughter
so far the girl, Rauca, has already taken down a champion fighter...she's like 12 and blind-
Yooo I love when you post. And I’ve been animating lately so this is great! Loaf you >:]
MEGALOVANIA IN THE BG?????????
I love the bunny getting stuck in the UFO 😂
I’m an animator have been waiting for a animation thing from u
i luv your tutorials :3
I was just thinking of making an animation this timing is crazy
For a cheap way of getting stuff out of the way. You should show them how to use secondary animation. 👏
Woww these r really good tips! I always like tips that cater to more caroony artstyles since I feel like most tutorials are for realistic or semirealistic artstyles :3
btw what animation app is this? ive been looking for a new one to use :P
That animation program looks really neat! If you don’t mind, what’s the name of it? 🌻
It’s in the title, procreate dreams
@vimto2838 oh I'm so blind 😅 (and broke 😒)
Ty so much! I litteraly followed the video with notes!
OMG I HAVEN'T WATCHED YOU IN SO LONG
I am reviewing my Flipnote studio knowledge here
I love your videos and want to try to get into art and animation as a hobby, I was just wondering what program you use :]
4:54 I actually dot hat too and i feel like it really helps. Plus I also make the same expression my character is making while animating or drawing. Idk if that one has any purpose or not tho.
Love youuu
WOAHH EARLY IVE FOLLOWED U SINCE 2021